Who is the Fool? Perhaps he is the wisest among us? When the Spiritual Master ceases to be the Fool, he becomes a fool.
Let’s start from the beginning - from 0. The first card of the Major Arcana of Tarot. It marks our path. From 0 to 0.
He strides boldly forward in the attire of a jester, with characteristic bells on his garment. This is a symbol of the beginning of life and the associated innocence, optimism, and foolishness at the same time.
Together, let’s create a score for the Fool. The visual works will become part of the Signal2Noise festival and the Tarot Licker project by Milena Soporowska and Lotus Reaction, as part of an exhibition at Transmediale Studio in Berlin.
Signals2Noise is one of the first large events uniting independent radio stations from Europe, taking place in Berlin. S2N focuses on the exchange of experiences and collective artistic processes in collaboration with community radios from Eastern, Central, and Northern Europe. This year’s edition is partnered with Radio Kapitał.
More information:
🔗 [https://cashmereradio.com/shows/signals2noise/](https://cashmereradio.com/shows/signals2noise/)
Keywords: beginning / zero / holy madman / wise fool / beginning of spring / freedom / jester / potential / juggling / vagabond / craving / buffoonery / eternal movement / chaos
Curatorial care: Milena Soporowska.
Submissions should include:
Submissions should include:
❦Name and surname
❦Links to websites and/or social media
❦Title and a short description
❦Information regarding the technique
♢In the title of the email/submission, please write: TAROT LICKER: Fool | open call | name and surname/nickname/collective name.
♢Please send a maximum of 3 works (by one work we understand one piece and not one project, which may potentially consist of many different works).
♢Works must be finished and ready to be shown.
♢Works can be made in the medium of: photography, painting, graphics, drawing, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, costume/fabric, text (i.e., e.g., a poem - in English) – as long as they can be transferred in print form to a card or presented in the form of a slide/projection.
♢The total size of all files together must not exceed 5 MB.
♢Does the work have to depict the tarot Fool?
No, but it can. However, we are primarily looking for interesting interpretations of the Fool character, traits associated with it, rather than a literal adaptation of the Fool card. Its interpretations can take very different forms. Your work does not have to directly refer to the tarot, to the original composition of the card (although it certainly can).
❔Do you have doubts whether your work meets the requirements? Write or check our FAQ document.
🔗 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um3zrGncEgvooAMt-PjDBZ9j4TY4SkCsOt6Z5e8WAgk/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Um3zrGncEgvooAMt-PjDBZ9j4TY4SkCsOt6Z5e8WAgk/edit)
Schedule:
❦ Deadline for the open call: 19.09.2024 (Thursday), 23:59
Timely submission of the application is one of the conditions for the submitted works to be accepted for selection.
We reserve the right to extend the submission period.
❦ Results (tentatively): 23.09.2024
Participants will be notified by email. The results will also be posted on the Event page and in the Organizer's social media.
❦ Installation: around 3 or 4.10.2024.
We reserve the right to extend the submission period and change the preliminary date of announcing the results. This is mainly related to the number of submissions.
📨 Submissions, as well as all additional questions regarding the submission of works, should be directed to the email: windovvlicker@gmail.com.
Photo: Milena Soporowska.
Open call Tarot Licker: Fool is part of the international Signals2Noise festival, whose main organizer is Cashmere Radio from Berlin.
The festival takes place on October 4 in Berlin. One of its partners is Radio Kapitał.
More information:
🔗 [https://cashmereradio.com/](https://cashmereradio.com/)
🔗 [https://linktr.ee/signals2noise](https://linktr.ee/signals2noise)
🔗 [https://www.instagram.com/signals2noise/](https://www.instagram.com/signals2noise/)
🔗 [https://www.instagram.com/vvindovv.licker/](https://www.instagram.com/vvindovv.licker/)
🔗 [https://milsopo.tumblr.com/post/728073037445054464/windowlicker-exhibition-space-in-nowy-bazar-rozyckiego](https://milsopo.tumblr.com/post/728073037445054464/windowlicker-exhibition-space-in-nowy-bazar-rozyckiego)
* Reference to the description of the Fool card in > by Janusz Wielobób.
👅 @vvindovv.licker is an experimental exhibition space.
The pavilion serves as something between a gallery and an esoteric stall, thus referring to the tradition of bazaar fortune-tellers. You can drop by for an exhibition, but also for a consultation, or read various publications in the field of esotericism, zines, and photo books, as well as... view unusual tarot decks.
The name Windowlicker comes from the English idiom > (window shopping) and the French >. In loose translation, it means “licking shop windows,” which refers to looking at shop displays but ultimately buying nothing.
The space is run by two creative individuals:
Milena Soporowska (@milsopo) and Piotrek Sobiecki, performing under the pseudonym Lotus Reaction (@lotus_reaction).